Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only six of the most seriously wasted were hospitalized. Another young woman was reportedly lifted from inside a small windowless container in which she had been confined since mid-January. The only arrests the police made were of three doctors on the premises and a cult official, on suspicion of unlawful confinement...
...article by Wilson in the New York Times. The influential criminologist cited trials in Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that violent crime can be cut drastically through campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns. But the Fourth Amendment prohibits frisking someone for illegal weapons without a reasonable suspicion that he or she is armed and dangerous. Wilson mused that if technology could pinpoint a concealed weapon at a distance without an invasive search, it might justify subsequent frisks and confiscations, and "our streets can be made safer even without sending many more people to prison...
...Rape victims ought to be viewed with compassion, not suspicion; rapists ought to be viewed with rage, not tolerance," Cellucci said...
...love but once, at age 24, and then lost her, at least formally, when the woman married one of his closest school friends. But they maintained an intermittent affair, and Hullah now believes that her grown son may also be his. What, he wonders, should he do with this suspicion? "My son. Do I look on him with dimmed eyes, yearning to embrace him and claim him as my own? No, I don't. Things are very well as they...
Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...